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THE aims of the Peckham Health Centre are nowadays so well known that they need no explanation here. The plan was to offer to families living within a specified area containing about 5,000 families a health service in the form of a family club, supported by a weekly subscription which is now 2s. per family. This doubling of the original subscription was suggested by old members of the Centre themselves. The details given in this book of the health examinations made show that the families participating obtain for this small subscription a very valuable service. But the scheme would be fundamentally misunderstood if it were thought that it seeks to
Biologists in Search of Material
an Interim Report on the Work of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham. Edited by Dr. G. Scott Williamson Dr. I. H. Pearse. Second edition. Pp. 107 + 2 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1947.) 5s. net.
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LAPAGE, G. Biologists in Search of Material. Nature 161, 336 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161336a0
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